“Bastard Out of Carolina” quotes

“- Anney Boatwright: Jesus, Glen. You don't know your own strength.
- Glen Waddell: I guess I don't.”

Jennifer Jason Leigh - Anney Boatwright
Ron Eldard - Glen Waddell

“I think you're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen.”

Ron Eldard - Glen Waddell

“The day I was born started off bad and only got worse. I guess I was lucky I got born at all.”
Laura Dern - Narrator

“You don't know what it's like, Bone, getting out on your own, then being dragged back home. You wait a few years, get yourself a sweetheart, a job that pays your own money, stuff you like to do that your mama says is silly or sinful. Just about everything I like in this world is silly or sinful. But then, mama, I don't care. I got my car and I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Christina Ricci - Dee Dee

“- Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright: I didn't hear you.
- Glen Waddell: Don't you sass me. Don't you dare sass me. You think just 'cause your aunt died, you can talk to me like that? You're in my house, now. I am the boss of my house. Do you understand that?”

Jena Malone - Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright
Ron Eldard - Glen Waddell

“It's my one day off, and you gotta tear around here? Now just, just cool it, kid. You're a girl, not a racehorse.”

Ron Eldard - Glen Waddell

“I'd rather die than go back living with you!”

Jena Malone - Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright

“I don't care what they say. I won't have anybody call you trash.”

Jennifer Jason Leigh - Anney Boatwright

“- Anney Boatwright: Glen's not like that.
- Granny: You don't know what that boy is like.
- Anney Boatwright: I know he loves me.
- Granny: Love. Can't even hold a job for more than a month.”
Jennifer Jason Leigh - Anney Boatwright
Grace Zabriskie - Granny

“Not my kids. I was never gonna have my girls know what it was like. I was never gonna have them go hungry or cold or scared. Never, you hear me? Never!”
Jennifer Jason Leigh - Anney Boatwright

“I lived in a world of shame. I hid my bruises as if they were evidence of crimes I had committed.”
Laura Dern - Narrator

“- Glen Waddell: The things I do ain't good enough for you. I put my hand in a honey jar, comes out piss! Nothing I do is right!
- Anney Boatwright: Glen, everybody has troubles now and then, honey. Just give it time, sweetie. Things are gonna work out.”
Ron Eldard - Glen Waddell
Jennifer Jason Leigh - Anney Boatwright

“Sometimes I just get so tired, you know? Sometimes I just want somebody strong to stand by me. To stay with me.”
Jennifer Jason Leigh - Anney Boatwright

“Who had mama been? What had she wanted to be or do before I was born? Once I was born her hopes turned, and I climbed up her life like a flower reaching for the sun. Her life had folded into mine. Who would I be when I was 15, 20, 30? Would I be as strong as she had been? As hungry for love? As desperate, determined and ashamed?”
Laura Dern - Narrator